Name people who were anomalies for their generation

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(09-14-2019, 06:28 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: I think that we ARE all in synch. After World War Two we became one global society, and that process actually started in the 1890s when imperialism reached its climax.


You can see the commonalities among peoples now to an increasing degree on the cycle. Right now we see a typical 4T trend toward reaction, tyranny and racism all over the world. And I think the global movements especially among the young of rising people power will soon break through into a new progressive trend in the next decade.

The Second World War was ultimately the climax of the late-19th century effort to colonize the world, at least in the Pacific "theater". Except for China, almost all of that war was in colonies of European powers and Japan (which assimilated the colonial ethos) -- Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Burma, and French, British, and Australian insular possessions. Do not forget that Alaska (Attu and Kiska were occupied shortly by Japan) and Hawaii (Battle of Midway, and remember Pearl Harbor!) were colonies of the United States. At the end of the war the Soviet Union moved into Japanese frontier areas such as the Kuril Islands, southern Sakhalin (taken by Japan from Imperial Russia in 1906), and the effective colony of Manchukuo and brutally-treated Korea. 

Much of the struggle between the Axis and Allied Powers was in colonial Africa, including the British puppet state of Egypt and the French and Italian colonies. Syria  and Lebanon had a struggle between the Free French and the Vichy regime for dominance, with the Free French yielding independence to both countries to keep them out of Axis hands. Nazi conquests were an attempt to turn most of Europe into a frontier for German expansion -- note well that Hitler was an avid reader of Western stories of struggles between white settlers and 'barbarous savages' in the works of Karl May. Hitler chose to treat such people as Poles and Ukrainians as  'barbarous savages' who would lose all relevance in the new zones of German Lebensraum.  Hitler played his own game of Cowboys and Indians -- with the Poles and Jews as Indians.    

World War II is so horrific that except for Latin America and very isolated parts of Africa it or its sequels (independence struggles for South and Southeast Asia. Communist takeovers of central and Balkan Europe and the Chinese and Greek civil wars) that it effectively creates a reset for much of the world. Little could be more a Crisis than a Communist takeover that utterly destroys the old economic elites and imposes a Marxist cover on all culture. 

I am tempted to believe that the efforts of Trump, Orban, and Bolsonaro to establish illiberal pseudo-democracies will implode. People do not want to suffer for economic elites.